For those who don’t know me, my name is Carly Costello, and I will be working with CNN iReport for the next month.

I hope you will join me and the rest of the iReport team today at 3 p.m. ET for our weekly roundtable discussion here on the iReport blog. This week, we'll be discussing CNN’s Home and Away project, which is an interactive memorial to the thousands of coalition troops worldwide who have died in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Team iReport is currently brainstorming ways to continue spreading the word about Home and Away and share the stories of these brave men and women with the CNN community. We would love to hear input from the iReport community.

Today’s roundtable will also be a good opportunity for you to meet other CNN iReporters, and for the iReport staff to answer any questions you may have about what's going on in the community.

We'll open comments at 3 p.m. ET and begin the conversation. In the meantime, please feel free to explore the Home and Away interactive and think of any questions you might have about the project.

Something along the AIDS traveling memorial quilt that captured the imagination in this country but expand it to include all coalition troop names. Or a Christ-like gigantic environmental art project like his wrapping of the Reichstag, Central Park Gates, 24 mile running fence in CA - but a black ribbon with names+bios of each. It could become a permanent memorial somewhere.

Welcome @BetteBoomer, those are great ideas, but I think we are looking for something that we can do through CNN.com and with our iReporters. An example could be something like a photo gallery highlighting some of the Home and Away submission.

Home and Away has been a great way to honor those killed in action. Our goal is to have a tribute posted for every fallen service member, so we need to get the word out about it to as many people as possible.

Ok, I get it. Have reporters in each location of the fallen take a picture of a grave marker, a photo that represents the town or picture of the house where the fallen grew up - something personal for a start.

I have a story about anti Gaddafi postings on the CNN forums at the bottom of stories vanishing across the board. Not just to some but anyone who says something against Gaddafi. It seemed to intensify at the beginning of this week. Sometimes it works fine. Then at certain hours everything vanishes. Unlike any other CNN board. But it has been going on for over a month. It is an interesting study. It could be anti-Obama trying to ruin his effort, it could be pro Gaddafi, or it could even be the Rebels trying to fain victim. I have no idea who. To test you need an account that CNN might ban because it gets messy. Do not use your current account. Say a few things against Gaddafi and test this for several days, it will go away. I have been banned from the board, although I do not think I violated any rules. I was putting my postings back once removed. But the alternative is to leave all pro Ghadafi postings up and do nothing. I was somewhat moderate. The worst I called him was a joker.

Hey BetteBoomer. If you click on a hometown on the map, it will pull up the service member from that town. From there you can view their profile by clicking on Share memories and messages. You can also search for specific members in the search bar in the top right corner of the interactive.

Exposure for the page is going to be pretty simple; announce it on CNN... (not being cheeky)... To get people to utilize it, the most honest way I know is to interview someone who lost someone; using the interface, and or find someone on Facebook or Twitter to personalize it.

Hey metacouture! We actually did that on Memorial Day and it was really successful. We are still trying to find other outlets to get the friends and family members, who might not be avid CNN readers/watchers, aware of what we are doing.

Similar to the cultural census, maybe drill down through the Home and Away for details and focus on a state or region and reposition each fallen's story in that state or region elsewhere on CNN or ? Then move on to the global.

@davidw I might suggest a sign in area to provide some privacy, although you are in the news business, there is probably some hesitancy on the part of people to send family details onto the web. And then perhaps to limit the review of family names to a first name only being visible. And then perhaps to have multiple choice of options where a poster can select or de-select items, some of which they might find tasteful or distasteful.

@ccostello3 Awesome. I wasn't feeling original. I assumed that was the case.

It is a tricky situation. I love that you are posing the question here.

I have many more ideas, and it seems to be circling around a simple issue: It should have gone "viral" ~ short of that happening, there is a quandary; How does CNN get people aware of it without pushing it on people.

@davidw, I think I started out being creative and then after a while of things vanishing, it is either re-post or leave. But the feeling is that someone hacked into DISCUS backend and was chopping people out left and right. This I think has to do with an auto delete feature where is several people hit the REPORT ABUSE button they can delete listings, because there is no live moderator. It gets complex and I do not have a solution for it.

Regarding reaching out. I love the idea. I thought of it, and it is a sticky area with implied endorsement, how does CNN empower people to interact that directly while avoiding the issues @DavidW is dealing with?

@ davidw, I did look at the map the other day. I just took another look at it. And think you link the individual to the area where they were killed. My first thought is retribution from people who might track a combatant to his home town and ?? While the interface is very impressive. You need to remember that unlike any other tribute it is in the middle of a war. And the people you are fighting seek revenge all the time. Now nothing may come of it. But perhaps to keep more personal details somewhat discreet. Or also to have a login to gain more details which leave more of a trail minimally.

Before we leave today, we want to tell you about two assignments we have out. First is called "Airplanes for freedom" and it is part of our Freedom Project.

What we need you to do is make a paper airplane of your own. On one wing, write one of the three statistics above. On the other wing, write a message of hope for the victims in your own words. Then add your name.

@ davidw I always think of worst case, and the worst case for that map is someone with problems gets it and finds an easy link to the close relatives to the person lost. So, I would design it in such a way so that it would not be a simple thing to find their relatives. Just as a precaution. I think it is technically possible but you will need a few twists and turns when accessing the info.

@rebelleader, all of the information is kept private. We do not release any additional information without permission of the family or submitter. The names of the submitters and family members are not released without permission either, and we use their iReport alias when we write producer notes. The only reason we would use names of the family members or submitters is if we were writing a story or blog post, and in that case, we would ask for permission to use their names. I hope this helps.

@davidw the plate looks like fun, here is an idea. Make an application out of it and allow people to drop in food items to the plate which will then divide automatically and tell people how close they are to the target by the Gov.

I'm a 22-year resident of Tokyo. I'm stunned by the "efforts" of the Japanese government to save electricity: it used to be called "cool biz": wearing cooler clothes in the summer and turning down the air conditioner. How ridiculous, especially in light of the fact that the Japanese consistently refuse even to consider daylight savings time: the only major industrialized country on Earth not to take advantage of it. The energy savings could be significant. It's complete daylight here before 5AM. Leave it to the Japanese government to piddle around with absurd public relations gimmicks.

I would love to see a couple requirements for all the reps/congress of our country. federal,state And city 1st. I think when times are so hard they have to lay off thousands of the "lower class" goverment workers, the first thing when they look at cuts should be the salaries of each "high class" worker. Why are we paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to one person when that same money would sustain many. 2nd (but should be 1st) I BELIEVE ANY ONE HOLDING OFFICE SHOULD HAVE TO LIVE FOR AT LEAST 3 MONTHS AT THE PAY THEY GIVE FOR SOCIAL SECURITY DISABLED.I Don't mean to yell it but when I try to hold things together at a pay rate of 1000 monthly with one bedroom rates at 700 monthly and gas at 3.90 a gallon which $15 which translates to 2 times to the grocery store (I live in a rural area) and then I hear things like medicare medicaid, social security, all those things that keep us poor hardworkers that for no fault of his/her own has been unabled to work yet contributed to the system for a lifetime should be cut. The people cutting things are giving themselves raises, ignoring the fact that not one of them seem to understand what we "little" people are dealing with when they play their billion dollar games. I'd love to have just what they carry for pocket change. It would proably sustain me for a month. I watch things like money that was geared for stimulating the job market. Around here they started building roads.. We had a iron works in town but for some strange reason the work went to canada. a month later the ironworks here closed. workers here no longer work. what costs more unemployment or working in the usa?

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